No edge rusher. No linebacker. No offensive line depth. As his fellow general managers scrambled to fill the holes on their roster ahead of the NFL’s 4 p.m. trade deadline, Roseman looked at his creation and saw that it was good. Good enough, at least.

After superstar pass-rusher Aidan Hutchinson went down for the season, the Lions had a gaping hole on their otherwise Super Bowl-caliber roster. Detroit legitimately had everything except for a difference-maker off the defensive edge, a place that some of the other NFC powers (and the AFC’s heavyweights) could probably exploit in the postseason.